Fort Frances Times Online Edition - July 27, 2017

The article on “Quest for the Best” in yesterday's Times incorrectly identified one of the contestants as Kristina Roberts.

In fact, her name is Kristina Robertson.

The Times regrets any disappointment or confusion this error may have caused.

On Tuesday around 10:35 p.m., officers of the Rainy River District OPP conducting patrols on Highway 11/71 in Alberton Township observed a Highway Traffic Act infraction.

Officer conducted a traffic stop within the Town of Fort Frances.

During their investigation, the driver, a 32-year-old Fort Frances woman, failed the roadside test.

The Sioux Lookout OPP is investigating upwards of 60 missing Fentanyl patches.

There is a great risk to the public with the missing Fentanyl patches as they are a highly-addictive opioid that has caused numerous deaths from overdosing across the country.

Five new fires were confirmed in the Northwest Region by yesterday evening in the districts of Nipigon, Red Lake, and Sioux Lookout.

The forest fire hazard is forecast to be “moderate" to "high” in most parts of the region—and rising in the coming days.

The memory of the Fort Frances Her-icanes was just long enough to remember they didn't want to repeat their early stumble in last year's post-season.

Marissa Kerry earned the win in her playoff debut as the defending champion 'Canes beat the eighth-ranked Emo Renegades 12-5 last night at VanJura in second-round playoff action of the Rainy River District Women's Fastball League.

One of the best snipers in the Borderland Soccer League women's division had a “Killer” birthday bash.

Known as “Killer Kellar” in her Muskie days a decade ago, Sara Kellar was in top form Monday night, scoring all four goals in a 4-3 victory by Al's Racquet Stringing over La Place Rendez-Vous/Taggs.

Crews cut down and removed trees from the 200 block of Scott Street yesterday, with the block again closed to traffic today to allow the work to be completed. The trees are being removed in anticipation of the installation of a new sidewalk starting Monday. The sidewalk will match the work done recently outside the Civic Centre.

John Janousek of Nisswa, Mn., above, showed off the largest fish anybody brought into their boat during this year's Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship—a mammoth 5.03-pounder he and partner Chad Johnson (Rogers, Mn.) caught on Day 3 that vaulted them all the way up to a third place overall.

VANCOUVER—British Columbia's information and privacy commissioner has ordered a Surrey-based vigilante group to stop posting personal information about two men the group alleges are linked to child luring.

TORONTO—The waterlogged Toronto Islands finally will reopen to the public on July 31.

The popular tourist destination and home to hundreds of city residents virtually was shut down in early May after flooding caused by rising water levels in Lake Ontario, brought on in part by heavy rains.

MONTREAL—It has been a decade since his granddaughter's disappearance and eventual slaying, but the wounds are still fresh for Henri Provencher.

Cedrika Provencher, a nine-year-old freckle-faced redhead from Trois-Rivieres, Que., vanished from near her home on July 31, 2007.

For more than eight years, the young girl's face was plastered on posters across the province.

REGINA—A residential school cemetery has become the first in Saskatchewan to be designated as a provincial heritage site.

Culture minister Ken Cheveldayoff formally recognized the cemetery on the edge of Regina yesterday, and said the children buried there will not be forgotten.

EDMONTON—A popular midway ride at this week's K-Days fair and exhibition in Edmonton has been shut down as a precaution after a deadly accident involving the same attraction at the Ohio State Fair.

MONTREAL—Concluding a Canada-U.S. softwood lumber agreement in the coming weeks remains uncertain but there is headway on the thorny trade dispute, the head of lumber producer Tembec suggested yesterday.

REGINA—The families of missing and murdered indigenous women say a national inquiry already has failed and are calling for “a hard reset” on the process.

Many made emotional pleas yesterday as two of the inquiry commissioners appeared at the Assembly of First Nations' annual meeting to explain the inquiry process, including how to register and give testimony.

OTTAWA—International Monetary Fund researchers say the federal government can afford to spend $8 billion annually to reduce the cost of child-care spaces nationwide because the program would pay for itself.

The proposal is more than 10 times what the Liberals have promised to spend annually over the next decade on child care.

NEW YORK—At Jef Boeke's lab, you can whiff an odour that seems out of place, as if they were baking bread here.

But he and his colleagues are cooking up something else altogether: yeast that works with chunks of man-made DNA.

Scientists long have been able to make specific changes in the DNA code.

TORONTO—If last night's start was Marco Estrada's last in a Blue Jays' uniform, he wasn't happy with the way he performed.

WINNIPEG—Kyries Hebert hasn't slowed down on the football field—and his wit still is quick off of it.

The Montreal linebacker will play the 150th game of his 12-year CFL career when the Alouettes visit the Winnipeg Blue Bombers tonight.

OAKVILLE, Ont.—When Adam Hadwin and Nick Taylor begin the opening round of the RBC Canadian Open this afternoon, it's going to feel more like a trip down memory lane than a national championship on the PGA Tour.

They're paired up in the first round of a tournament for the first time since their teenage years when they sometimes played together at Ledgeview Golf and Country Club.

MOORESVILLE, N.C.—Ryan Blaney will drive a third entry for Team Penske in NASCAR's top series next year.

Blaney will drive the No. 12 Ford, and join Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski in team owner Roger Penske's NASCAR lineup.

The 23-year-old Blaney was signed to Penske in 2012 and farmed out to race for Wood Brothers Racing.

LOS ANGELES—This is what happens when a team wins as much as the L.A. Dodgers: they believe they will find a way to win every night.

So when they fell behind 5-0 to Minnesota Twins' ace Ervin Santana last night, they did not waver.

When they pulled within one and the Twins called on all-star closer Brandon Kintzler, they simply wondered who would play the hero on this night.

NEW YORK — Twitter has made it clear that it won’t ban Donald Trump from its service, whether the president follows its rules against harassment or not.

That’s no surprise: The president’s tweets draw attention to the struggling service, even if tweets mocking reporters and rivals undercut Twitter’s stated commitment to make the service a welcoming place.

MANILA, Philippines — A Japanese historian who helped Cambodians preserve the Angkor temples and a Sri Lankan teacher who counselled war widows and orphans to overcome their nightmares are among the six winners of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awards, regarded as Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize.

NEW YORK — Scientists are working to create yeast that operates with custom-made DNA.

They have long been able to make specific changes in an organism’s DNA. Now, they’re pushing into the more radical step of starting over, and building redesigned versions from scratch.

While it may be frigid and wet on deck, the crew of a modern icebreaker can expect creature comforts inside the ship, even saunas.

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump said yesterday he wants transgender people barred from serving in the U.S. military “in any capacity," citing "tremendous medical costs and disruption.”

Trump's announcement on Twitter would reverse the effort under former President Barack Obama to open the armed services to transgender people.

WASHINGTON — Yes, you can buy happiness especially if the money saves you time.

People who dole out cash to save time on things like housekeeping, delivery services and taxis are a little bit happier than those who don’t, new research finds.